St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-03-12
SOUTHERN GLEAN!NGS.


the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Texas,
is 500, 1S5.
The bill to require railroad companies
| to give thirty days notice before reduc-
! ing wages, recently passed by the Texas
! Senate was sent to the House 1t was so
| amended as to require the employees to
! give fifteen days notice of their accept
snce or rejection Of the reduction.
Governor Ross of Texas has ordered a
| congress sional election for April B, to fill
the place of Judge Reagan, recently elect
! ed United States Senator.
! Florida is shipping lots of garden truck
! northward.
! The decision of Judge Van Epps at At
lanta, Ga, that WINE could not be sold by
! the drink, even in licensed Wlne-rooms,
! has greatly disturbed the Wlne-room
! keepers. Half dozen Of them are under
! Indictment for selling by the drink, and
! they fear that ST, 900 fines will be imposed
! upon each of them
! Green Butler and Monroe Hunt were
| drowned near Memphis, Tenn, few days
| ago by the upsetting of a 1at-boat.
There will be a general increase in the
| acreage of cotton plated in Mississippi
! this year il present signs count for any
thing
Captain W. I. High, Lonoke, Ark, com.
mitted suicide few days ago by going in
to his barn and hanging himself with
! trace chain.
! The Tennessee Senate has adopted the
| House resolution instructing Represent
| atives in Congress to use their influence
to prevent the Government from making
contracts with persons AID firms employ
ing convict labor.
A congressional convention meets at
Palestine, Tex, March s, to nominate a
| successor to Hon. John II. Reagan.
John Kelly, shoemaker of Pittsburgh,
Tex, committed suicide by ia king strych-
nine, and was buried by the Knights of
Labor.
1t is reported that the Nashville 4 Chat
tanOoga railroad has been sold to the
Richmond & Danville.
Governor Taylor of Tennessee has re-
quested the authorities of the main and
branch prisons to furnish him with the
names Of all convicts under the age of
fifteen years, the object being, 1t is I'M
derstoOd either to pardon them or to COM
mute their sentences.
The Tennessee Senate has passed bin
allowing twenty-five dollars per month to
Tennessee soldiers who lost their eyes in
battle, and such Federal soldiers from
Tennessee who lost their eyes in battle
and who are not pensioned by the General
Government.
Henry Dodson, worthless, insolent
vagabond, was recently tried before Geo.
L. Bradford and a jury at Augusta, KY,
for mistreating his family The jury, after
hearing all the evidence. returned a YER
dict of guilty, and ordered him sold to the
highest bidder at public auction for the
period of seventy five days. Judge Brad
ford has fixed March as the day of sale.
This is the first case of the kind for many
years, and much interest was manifested.
Charles Jones, a highly negro,
residing in Madison County, Tenn, was
found murdered IN the road near Pinson,
ten miles south of Jackson, few days
ago. The evidence at hand indicates that
Jones was waylaid by Dan Hughes and
killed with an axe. Hughes is in Jail
charged with the crime.
A law has just been enacted in Texas
making it a penal offense to have about the
person, saddle or saddlebags any pistol,
dirk, dagger, shotgun, sword-cane, spear,
knuckles, made of any hard substance,
bowie knife, or any other kind of knife,
manufactured or sold for purposes of Of
Tense or Defense The penalty is a fine Of
not less than twenty-five dollars or more
than two hundred dollars, and from twen- !
ty to fifty days in Jail.
In the case of Brazenton Whaley,
charged with breaking into and robbing
the post-office at Williamsburg, Ky, the |
jury in the United States District Court |
at Louisville rendered a verdict of no.
guilty.
1t transpires that Henry Boggs, who |
murderously assaulted Rev. Stone Hol |
cOmbe, at Louisville, KY, is the slick dia-
mond thief who got away with about
$1,000 worth of precious stones by the ex-
change game in Louisville. His identity
was discovered by means of photo graph.
Leota, Miss, is in gre at danger Of being
washed away, as the banks are cavi ng
and the river making great encroach-
ments.
The washerwomen Of Atlanta, Ga, are
on strikeagainst their poor-paying, upper
crust customers, who delight in wearing
clean linen, but who are decidedly averse
to giving up good money for the cleansing
process. Many of the laundresses are en-
for cling the laborer's lien on the clothes in
hand, and the situation is, to say the least,
interesting. The names of many of the
''best" families in the city are involved.
The Tennessee Association of Architects
was organized in Nashville, few days
since with John L. Smith, of Nashville,
as president and T. L. Dismukes, of the
same city, as Secretary. The schedule of
charges of the Western Association and
American Institute was adopted.
A few nights ago seven out of the seven
teen prisoners confined in the jail at Pine
Bluff, Ark, escaped OF those who es-
capped, five were negroes and two whits
men, all charged with grand larceny, ex-
cept one for robbery. They bored out
from the iron floor in the middle cell into
the corridor, and from there through the
outer brick wall. By the long use of lime
and other acid disinfectants the iron floor
had worn quite thin, and its penetration
with proper implements was quite easy.
The Court has offered a suitable reward
Mr. Fred Blumline was engaged in fell
ing tree, near Cloverport, KY, a few
days ago, and in attempting to get out of
the way as it came down, he stumbled and
fell the tree strilzino him and cruahinS